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Researcher · Parsons Brinckerhoff · United States

H. Alden Foster

H. Alden Foster publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Insurance and Financial Risk Management and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,347,764
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,165,649
of 1,627,098
Works
30
Citations
115
Citations per work
3.8
h-index
2
i10-index 2Top 99% in Global and Planetary Change
H. Alden Foster

What does H. Alden Foster research?

H. Alden Foster's work is mostly in Engineering (23%), Environmental Science (15%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Everything else: 15 works · 51.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 41.5% of their workEngineering: 7 works · 22.6% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 works · 9.4% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 works · 7.5% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 works · 5.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 15.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 works · 15.1% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKH. Alden Foster30works
Physical Sciences42%Social Sciences8%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else1551.0%
    1. Engineering722.6%
    2. Environmental Science515.1%
    3. Computer Science13.8%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance27.5%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change15% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering9% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe H. Alden Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Flood Risk, Surface Water Mapping, Insurance, Risk Management, Catastrophe Bonds and Economic Growth.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change82 topics
  2. Remote Sensing82 topics
  3. Flood Risk61 topic
  4. Surface Water Mapping61 topic
  5. Insurance52 topics
  6. Risk Management52 topics
  7. Catastrophe Bonds41 topic
  8. Economic Growth41 topic
  9. Drought21 topic
  10. Monitoring21 topic
  11. Agriculture11 topic
  12. Bayesian Networks11 topic
  13. Causal Inference11 topic
  14. Evolutionary Algorithms11 topic
  15. Flooding Stress11 topic
  16. Multiobjective Optimization11 topic
  17. Python11 topic
  18. Scientific Computing11 topic
  19. Submergence Tolerance11 topic
  20. Vulnerability11 topic

Where does H. Alden Foster work?

H. Alden Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Parsons Brinckerhoff, United States.

How many publications and citations does H. Alden Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 115 citations for H. Alden Foster, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,347,764 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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